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Not really much to say about this, other than that there are some very nice typefaces in here.
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Ostensibly for Rails, but most of these apply to anyone using an MVC framework, and are worth a look.
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This is a pet peeve of mine: people who use tinyUrl type services completely needlessly in blog posts and the like. I understand why, say, twitter does it, because of character limits, but it's still shit practice. URLs should clearly indicate the content they are the URL for. So I'll be plugging this in to my browser.
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This is an interesting idea – a more environmentally sound font, but will it have any actual impact on ink use at small sizes? I couldn't find any actual maths on the site. Also, I am a slave to Helvetica, and particularly Helvetica Neue, so until someone produces an ecofont variant on them, I don't see myself picking this up.
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Can we all please just move on from this now there's some accurate reportage about it?
Category Archives: Digitalia
Links For Tuesday 6th January 2009
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Quick and dirty tool to grab an LJ archive on any system that has python available, which includes OS X.
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SUP have knocked the american tech staff on the head. I don't believe they're going to fuck off tomorrow, or anything, but any way you slice it, this is bad news, and I'm going to have to find a good LJ archiving tool for OS X just so I do have a decent archive somewhere that isn't on LJ, but I should have done that anyway. Still, most of the public content over the least few years is already in databases on my own servers, anyway, but I'd like to get the private/friends locked stuff saved, too. I may also flip back to blogging on my own domain, and just mirroring the content into LJ, just in case.
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I may want to take this apart and rebuild it for other services since my tumblr account is used for my not-a-photoblog-honest. Or since the blog is called Dead Air, I might just pipe it in regardless, as it does kind of fit with the theme.
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I blog this mostly because I want to use the phrase "spime child", which is agreeably SF sounding. And because, well, it's an interesting application of the technology.
links for 2008-12-18
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Anyone who has seen my desktop will know it tends to er, fill up a bit. So let's see if this makes it easier for me to manage my home work flow. (I know it won't work in the office, because of the sheer amount of random crap I need to get swift access to in any given week…)
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I finally got around to watching Helevtica (the film about the font) while I was away at the weekend, and it was really very good. I look forward to seeing this.
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On the difference between Oliver Postgate's heyday and now: "There are no children, there are no adults, there is no wonder: only adolescents in waiting, being spoken to by screamingly selfconscious adolescents in their twenties and thirties."
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What it says on the tin. I'd need to play with it a bit to get it to work for me, but I do like the basic structure.
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Yes, I shall be wanting some of these for my phone, for those times when I get bored of my own photos.
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May of these are superb, and I would be delighted to own them. Just, y'know, saying.
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Digg/Reddit type site for design/branding/media stuff.
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I am torn between awe at these pictures, and horror at the events they depict. Even if you don't normally look at the photography links I post, you can't afford to miss this one.
Scrub Up
Spruced up the look of http://ala.sda.ir last night. Will probably leave http://www.alasdair.biz as-is for the next year – I haven’t found any clean and professional looking designs that I like as much as the one it’s currently using, and it is on my CV, so probably shouldn’t be anything too odd.
That just leaves me wondering what to do with site number three, the old and faded http://www.black-ink.org, which is traditionally where I put pieces of original writing, and is equally traditionally something that I only update in the first third of every year, after which point I become distracted by some other shiny thing.
Anyone got any fun suggestions for what I should do with it in the first part of next year?
Links For Wednesday 17th December 2008
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This was pitched to me as "the sound of a mall dying". I would call it the death knell of the holiday season. It is a massive dose of festive bitterness, as some genius has basically mashed up every festive song ever, and produced well, just give it a listen.
Links For Monday 15th December 2008
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I think I want one of these, provided I can hack it not to transmit to a third party for it's scripted rubbish, because I can do without my private life being profiled…
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I suspect I might need this in the next few days.
Links For Thursday 11th December 2008
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A norwegian photographer. Really very lovely stuff, has given me a few ideas.
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I have a well documented hatred of portraiture, and family gatherings are always a bit of a photographic trial for me – I feel obliged to attempt a bit of photography, but I'm never happy with the results. I might see if I can get anything out of some of these ideas…
Links For Wednesday 10th December 2008
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Please view these links as a pair. Mangement accepts no responsibility for cognitive distortions caused viewing either without proper context.
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Choose between this, and the next link.
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I pretty much do have everything I want aside from more and more camera lenses, but I have a number of possessions I want to upgrade over the next year or so, particularly in a homewares kind of line. This might be a handy reference.
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It's about the time of year I start putting a little brain space into the revamp of my website(s). I'll probably go with yet another off-the-shelf template in the end, but some of these icon sets are just fucking beautiful, and crying out to be used in some way if I do finally do another roll-my-own.
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An on-line friend passes this one on, saying "new favourite wikipedia page". I think it may be mine, too.
Links For Monday 8th December 2008
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This is an excellent argument for developing in the manner one wishes to. I don't need to support IE on my personal sites, and while I'm good enough at what I do that they're going to remain legible, the fact is that I am not going to waste hours of my life on support a product I heartily wish people would stop using.
Links For Friday 5th December 2008
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Than fuck. I hate not having a proper path in my finder windows.
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It occurs to me that I own a Wiimote, but no Wii. Using it to turn my Mac screen into a multitouch surface might be fun. As long as, y'know, I use a pen and not my fingers. I'm not a client, after all. I don't need to do fingers-on-the-screen rubbish.